---
typeId: term
recordId: agent-authentication
fields:
  title: Agent authentication
  definition: Authentication of an agent principal or locally scoped agent session
    so Benac can attribute agent actions and enforce agent authority. Agent
    authentication does not allow an agent to self-authorize trust,
    capabilities, secrets, decryption, storage, compute, data egress, or policy
    mutation.
  sourceDocument: user-provided definitions table
  sourceSections:
    - 7. Definitions
  order: 8100
---
